jaybaxter

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YouTube testing new ways to offer viewers more context and information on videos(blog.youtube)
6 points by jaybaxter 2y ago|0 comments
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by jaybaxter 2y ago
X | Machine Learning Engineer - Community Notes | SF, SJ, Seattle, LA, NYC | All Levels The role: build scalable production machine learning systems and infrastructure, and improve our open source algorithm: https://github.com&#x
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by jaybaxter 3y ago
I wouldn't say they were being childishly subversive -- it is very unclear that paper bags are better than plastic bags for the environment. "Manufacturing a paper bag takes about four times as much energy as it takes to produce a
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by jaybaxter 3y ago
It is very confusing to me how this got painted as pressure solely from the right. Ackman seemed like the driving force behind it, and he has mostly donated to democrats: "Since 1998, with few exceptions to select Republicans, Ackman h
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by jaybaxter 3y ago
There is a type of advertising called "brand advertising" where the goal is more about brand awareness (e.g. think of a Coca-Cola superbowl ad) than "direct response advertising". Such advertisers don't really care
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by jaybaxter 3y ago
The code is open source: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes The notes and rating data is released to the public every day: https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/download-data Feel free
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by jaybaxter 3y ago
Indeed, it does this! >For a note to achieve a high intercept term (which is the note’s helpfulness score), it must be rated helpful by raters with a diversity of viewpoints (factor embeddings) https://communitynotes.twitter.c
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by jaybaxter 4y ago
How come? Just long hours or something else?
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Elon Musk Embraces Twitter's Radical Fact-Checking Experiment(wired.com)
5 points by jaybaxter 4y ago|1 comments
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by jaybaxter 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Ug8Ln
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Musk Issues Ultimatum to Staff: Commit to Hardcore Twitter or Take Severance(washingtonpost.com)
36 points by jaybaxter 4y ago|23 comments
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by jaybaxter 4y ago
It started rolling out to everyone in the US in early October, and first version launched at smaller scale back in January 2021 https://twitter.com/birdwatch/status/1578004575990202370?s=4...
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by jaybaxter 4y ago
Hi! Birdwatch ML Engineer here-- these context notes are from Birdwatch. They are written and rated by users, and the notes are only added as context to Tweets if they are rated highly enough by multiple raters who have tended to disagree i
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Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithm-Powered Misinfo Annotations(arxiv.org)
4 points by jaybaxter 4y ago|0 comments
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by jaybaxter 4y ago
>but you’ve got to think about the idea that the folks who conducted this study know as well how hard science is, and for them to publish this anyway means they (and their reviewers) did a pretty good job dealing with this issue (and man
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by jaybaxter 5y ago
Sounds like it might be The Last Psychiatrist? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
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Twitter Birdwatch Guide on GitHub(github.com)
2 points by jaybaxter 6y ago|0 comments
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Palantir Apollo: Powering SaaS where no SaaS has gone before(medium.com)
11 points by jaybaxter 6y ago|1 comments
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Palantir’s reference price values it at roughly $16B(techcrunch.com)
7 points by jaybaxter 6y ago|0 comments
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Serving Healthy Conversation on Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by jaybaxter 8y ago|0 comments
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The spread of true and false news online(science.sciencemag.org)
66 points by jaybaxter 9y ago|35 comments
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The Science of Fake News(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by jaybaxter 9y ago|0 comments
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White South African farmers to be removed from their land(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by jaybaxter 9y ago|1 comments
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Therapy experience associated with negative changes in personality(researchgate.net)
1 points by jaybaxter 9y ago|0 comments
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by jaybaxter 12y ago
Could you please link to the technical reviews you mentioned? I would be very interested to read them because as an outsider, Flash Boys seemed overly simplistic, but I haven't been able to figure out what the real story is yet.
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by jaybaxter 13y ago
Test questions like the SAT are designed to have wrong answers that look like they are right at first glance, so people who think they have a better than average chance by guessing often don't because they were baited by one of the wro
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by jaybaxter 13y ago
When there is a penalty for wrong guesses, students who have a pretty good idea that they know the answer, but aren't certain, must waste time determining whether it is in their favor to answer the question. Evaluating whether it is wo
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by jaybaxter 13y ago
Once you have the VM up, you can try running demo scripts, located at ~/bayesdb/examples/ / .py after you've checked out and pulled master from ~/bayesdb and ~/crosscat. Yes, the install process is a pain
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by jaybaxter 13y ago
Hi, sorry for the trouble, and thanks for the bug report! If you git checkout master and git pull both the crosscat and BayesDB repos (at ~/crosscat and ~/bayesdb on the VM), this issue will be fixed. We are working on pushing a n
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by jaybaxter 13y ago
The answer is both yes and no. In principle, longitudinal/panel data can be run through BayesDB, though BayesDB would have to infer the temporal structure. Also, we've toyed a little with forecasting by making a table where each r

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